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Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)

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KOAN:

There is nothing I dislike.

—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 38a

From PZI MK Case 38, Linji:

a. There is nothing I dislike.
b. There is a true person of no rank who is constantly coming in and going through the gates of your face.
c. There is a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form. It knows how to listen to the teachings, it knows how to understand the teachings, it knows how to teach. That solitary brightness is you.
d. Wherever you are, just take the role of host, and that place will be a true place.
e. In your life right now, what is it you lack, what is it that practice must mend?

—Record of Linji

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Dharma Theme May 1, 2023

Dharma Theme: Great Ancestor Linji

PZI Teachers

Koans
Linji's Blockhead, Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Linji's Nothing To Do, Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c), Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d), Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38), Linji's True Place (MK38d)
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ancestors, be the host, blockhead, Dharma Theme, enlightenment, Linji, no rank, solitary brightness, true person, your light
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Dharma Theme, Text

Meet Great Ancestor Linji: “A nine-colored Phoenix, a thousand-mile horse.” That’s how Linji was described in early Chan times.

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Text October 22, 2020

The Nature of Practice

John Tarrant

Koans
Dogen's Turn Your Light Inward, Don't Believe It, Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a), Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)(BS20), Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards, Step by Step in the Dark (MK72), The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
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2016 Summer Retreat, Bodhisattva Path, buddha nature, empathy, koan, light, Linji, moving in the dark, no rank, no-self, not knowing, practice, take the backward step, unlooked-for help
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Practice. The notion of practice, as something you embody, and you walk through, and you are—rather than something you add, like something added to gasoline. There’s also a sense of moving in the dark, in some way that’s positive. So that in a practice, “not knowing” is on your side.

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